“…Moreover, in most mammals body size has been shown to play a major role in acquiring mates and resources, as larger males are more likely to win fights (Lindenfors et al, 2007), and are more attractive to females (Charlton et al, 2007(Charlton et al, , 2012McElligott et al, 2001). In humans, taller men have been found to be healthier (La Batide-Alanore et al, 2003;Smith et al, 2000), enjoy higher reproductive (Nettle, 2002;Pawlowski et al, 2000), academic (Hensley, 1993) and socioeconomic (Harper, 2000;Judge and Cable, 2004) success, and are more attractive to Western women (Mautz et al, 2013;Stulp et al, 2014;Swami et al, 2008;Yancey and Emerson, 2014) than shorter men, despite possible costs associated with male tallness (i.e. energy allocation trade-off between growth and reproduction: see Pisanski and Feinberg (2013) for a review).…”